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Architectural realisation of a building and its opening to the public with a range of services are central components of the building and design process of libraries. Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is the final step in this process. It provides a...

What competences are needed for heritage librarians, and how can they be taught? The management of heritage collections requires a unique mix of knowledge and skills, including expertise in preservation and conservation; heritage policies; acquisitions...

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval. The primary purpose of this...

The contributions to the conference held in Geneva in 2003, focus on the very latest approaches to 'e-Learning'. The power and enormous diversity of this medium, becomes apparent as experts from all over the world compare notes and raise a whole new...

In this book, the author focuses on the intersection of two major bodies of policy and practice: knowledge economy and ICTs on one hand, and sustainable economic development on the other. It aims to provide a broad-ranging account of the social and...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

Modern libraries need to respond to many challenges and thus must constantly evolve. The series Bibliotheks- und Informationspraxis [Library and Information Practice] takes on new issues and questions and it aims, by contributing information and...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

At head of title: Commission of the European Communiites.Book InformationISBN 9783598107443Author Brenda M. RimmerFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 750g

The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) play an increasingly imp- tant role in our today's activities. More and more we use the Web to buy goods and to inform ourselves about cultural, political, economical, medical, and scienti?c developments. For...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991193566Author Jim FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Statistics by Jim PublishingPublisher Statistics by Jim PublishingWeight(grams) 549g

Many consider libraries to be immutable institutions, deeply entrenched in the past, full of dusty tomes and musty staff. In truth, libraries are and historically have been sites of innovation and disruption. Originally presented at the Library History...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

Traditionally, libraries have served as storage spaces offering access to diverse physical collections. Today, following numerous social and technological changes, libraries are retooling their services, rethinking storage and reimagining their spaces...

Since publication of the previous (fourth) edition of this handbook by UNESCO in 1978, drastic technological progress and very important changes in the political-economic sphere have taken place, with great impact on library work. The international...

In Libraries in Russia, the author, Valerii Leonov, pursues the history of the first Russian national library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Science (Bibliotheca Akademii Nauk, short: BAN), from the beginning of the 18th century to the present...

Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures the average number of citations per article in a certain time...

This volume presents contributions to a workshop held by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) on the subject of creating and using digital library, museum and archive...

The capacity to understand and communicate health information is a major international health concern. Sponsored by the Health and Biosciences Section of International Federation of Library Associations, this book highlights the contribution that...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

What began in 1994 as a five-page handout, the Dictionary of Library and Information Science soon was expanded and converted to electronic format for installation on the Western Connecticut State University Library Web site, where it is in high demand by...

'Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it to function effectively. This...

The changes brought about by the World Wide Web and the explosion of electronic media have called into question many of the assumptions on which national bibliographies have been founded. The need was growing of a route map to navigate through unchartes...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The...

Presents the 16 most important papers delivered at the international meetings of the Round Table for Research on Reading since 1985. Librarians, academics and researchers discuss reading theory, methods and definitions; experiences at the national level...

Information is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In...

This book illuminates school librarian and teacher librarian education and training in light of the 2015 IFLA School Library Guidelines, second edition. The Guidelines provide a framework for effective service delivery to ensure that students and...

The management of knowledge created in an organization not only enables reuse of knowledge, but also adds value to the organization itself. Preventing duplication of intellectual effort, it saves economic and human resources, leading to the creation of...

This book celebrates the new IFLA School Library Guidelines and shows how the Guidelines can be used in improving school library services. Each chapter describes innovative initiatives for developing, implementing and promoting school library guidelines...

About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three times. By contrast, patron-driven acquisition allows a library to borrow or buy books only when a patron needs...

The five-volume set, LNCS 14081, 140825, 14083, 14084, and 14085 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023. The conference took place at Santa Barbara, USA, during August 19-24, 2023.The 124...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783598202766Author Carmen Crespo NogueiraFormat HardbackPage Count 151Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 416g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634000963Author Nina ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Litwin Books, LLCPublisher Litwin Books, LLCWeight(grams) 399g

Cloud computing is a model where computing resources (processors, storage, software) are offered as a utility from an indistinct location and boundaries to the user. Adoption of Cloud computing in recent years has gained momentum within various avenues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783598243943Author Maureen GrievesFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 622g

This volume proposes an interdisciplinary framework that views attention from a particular angle: as a means of accessing, that is, disclosing the world in a practical and meaningful way. Moreover, it investigates how this access is concretely mediated...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837192864Author Charles H. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO